LIVEONE WINS DIGIDAY VIDEO & TV AWARD FOR BEST LIVE MOMENT FOR SOCIAL GLOVES

The Inaugural Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms Event Delivered $15+ Million in Revenue

Event Drove 136K+ PPV, 137K NFT Purchases, Over 3.5 Billion Total Impressions, & Over 100K LiveOne Members

LiveOne Plans to Launch New Social Pop-Culture PPV and Live Events This Summer

LOS ANGELES, March 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveOne (Nasdaq: LVO), a creator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events, announced today that Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms event was awarded with the Best Live Moment award at the Digiday Video & TV Awards. LiveOne's category included nominees from  G4, MTV Entertainment Group, NVE Experience Agency, Prime Concepts Limited, Plug, Essence China, and The Soul Publishing.

"It is truly an honor to receive this award from Digiday," said LiveOne's CEO & Chairman Robert Ellin. "I am so proud of the LiveOne team, and beyond thrilled to be acknowledged by our industry peers. We are committed to developing and producing hybrid live events that combine the best aspects of sports, social influence, music, entertainment, NFTs, memberships and membership tokens and will shortly announce our social pop-culture event."

Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms brought boxing, music, esports, fashion, and NFTs together for a unique live pop culture spectacular show. The historic live pay-per-view event took place at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL, on June 12, 2021.

The event exceeded management's expectations with over $15 million in revenue. The event delivered:

• 136K+ PPV tickets
• 137K NFT purchases
• Over 3.5 billion total impressions across social media, press, and event platforms
• Over 100K LiveOne Members

Based on popular demand from creators, brands and fans, LiveOne plans to launch the next big social boxing mania event this summer.

Social Gloves brought together the world's biggest social media stars from YouTube and TikTok in a boxing competition, including Bryce Hall, Austin McBroom, Taylor Holder, AnEsonGib, Vinnie Hacker, Deji, Michael Le, FaZe Jarvis & more. The pop culture event featured a music lineup of today's hottest artists, including DJ Khaled (who brought out surprise guest Fat Joe), Lil Baby, Migos, Trippie Redd and rapper Latto who performed for the first time under her newly minted stage name.

Social Gloves was the first-ever live PPV event to offer NFTs with each PPV livestream purchase and a complete NFT collection including trading cards, judges card, coins and a one-of-a-kind sneaker NFT. LiveOne has partnered with Polygon and Cere Networks to deliver NFTs and tokens in upcoming social pop-culture events.

About LiveOne, Inc.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, LiveOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVO) (the "Company") is a creator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events. As of February 2022, the Company has accrued a paid and free membership base of over 2.1 million**, streamed over 2,900 artists, has a library of 30 million songs, 600 curated radio stations, nearly 270 podcasts/vodcasts, hundreds of pay-per-views, personalized merchandise, released music-related NFTs, and created a valuable connection between fans, brands, and bands. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries include Slacker Radio, React Presents, Gramophone Media, Palm Beach Records, Custom Personalization Solutions, LiveXLive, PPVOne and PodcastOne, which generates more than 2.48 billion downloads per year and 300+ episodes distributed per week across its stable of top-rated podcasts. LiveOne is available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and through OTT, STIRR, and XUMO. For more information, visit www.liveone.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter at @liveone.

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** Included in the total number of paid members for the reported periods are certain members which are the subject of a contractual dispute. LiveOne is currently not recognizing revenue related to these members.

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